"See you tomorrow, Mr. Ge!"
Wang Biaofeng arched his hands towards Yuan Keli, and then patted the box at his hand.
"All the boxes in this warehouse contain the land deeds for the fields, forests, restaurants, manors, etc. owned by the Qin Palace. The names on the boxes are the states and counties where the land deeds are located to distinguish them."
hiss……
Everyone was shocked.
The commander of the Six Guards was considered a well-informed person, but he was confused by the conversation between Wang Biaofeng and Yuan Keli.
Land deeds are very common, but this is the first time they have seen land deeds packed in more than a hundred boxes.
Cui Ming has been in Jinyiwei for seven or eight years. He has handled many major cases and raided many important court officials, but he has never seen land deeds packed in boxes.
Cui Ming subconsciously said: "A box is calculated as two thousand land deeds. It is estimated that so many boxes can hold one, ten... ten thousand copies!"
Yuan Keli's eyes flashed and he immediately asked: "How many land deeds are there in total?"
Wang Biaofeng did not reply immediately, but walked to the side and took out a book from a small box and handed it to Yuan Keli.
"Mr. Ge, this book contains a summary of the land deeds in the warehouse."
After Yuan Keli took it, he opened the first page.
"Xi'an Mansion has 8 hectares of lower fields, 80 hectares of middle fields, 622 hectares of upper fields, 5 restaurants, 2 rice mills, and 3 manors..."
"Chang'an County has 23 hectares of lower fields, 563 hectares of middle fields, and 266 hectares of upper fields..."
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Yuan Keli flipped through it quickly. Each state and county was summarized on one page, followed by specific details, locations, etc.
After a while, Yuan Keli stopped reading. No matter how much he summarized, it would not be as accurate as summarizing the land deeds.
"Cui Ming, arrange for people to move all these boxes to the courtyard, prepare some additional rooms, and put a few tables in each room for backup!"
"Six commanders, immediately summon all the accountants in Xi'an City and ask them to bring the things to settle accounts to the Prince of Qin's Mansion. This pavilion will be of great use!"
Everyone took the order and left.
In just half a quarter of an hour, Cui Ming led people to move all the boxes containing the title deeds to the courtyard, and the tables were ready.
After waiting for almost half an hour, a commander led more than a hundred men, old, middle-aged and young, into the courtyard.
These people looked at the Qin Prince's Mansion, which was surrounded by soldiers, with fear in their eyes, but also with excitement and curiosity.
They never dreamed of being able to enter a place like Prince Qin's Mansion. If they didn't die this time, they would have bragging rights when they left.
At the same time, they were also curious about what they were doing by calling so many accounting offices.
Cui Ming followed Yuan Keli's instructions and divided these accounting rooms into teams according to old, middle and young people, and each team evenly distributed the accounting rooms of the three levels of old, middle and young people.
Seeing that the team was well organized, Yuan Ke stepped forward.
"I, Yuan Keli, have invited you here to ask for your help in calculating the accounts. After a while, two people from each team will be selected to take turns reading the numbers on the land deed, while the remaining eight people will keep accounts at the same time.
The final data of the eight people must be consistent, which means it is correct. If one person is wrong, the calculation will be recalculated. Do you understand? "
"clear!"
Nearly a hundred accountants responded in unison, and at the same time they felt relieved. It turned out that it was just settling accounts, so there would be no problem.
"Of course, I won't let you all come in vain. At the end of the day, each person will receive two taels of silver, one stone of rice, and ten kilograms of meat!"
"Mr. Ge, just take care of it and leave it to us!"
A middle-aged accountant shouted loudly, and others also expressed their opinions.
In their respective masters' homes, their monthly wages were only two taels of silver.
Nowadays, they have two taels of silver a day, as well as rice and meat. They must seize this good thing.
"Go!"
Under the guidance of the Jin Yiwei, all the accountants entered their respective large rooms. A soldier stood at the four angles of each room to ensure that there would be no collusion in cheating.
After a while, the sound of loud singing and shouting and the crackling of abacus could be heard in the room.
"Chang'an County, 16 acres of farmland..."
Listening to the loud shouts and the sound of the abacus moving, Yuan Keli thought this was the most pleasant sound.
After listening for a while, Yuan Keli looked at Wang Biaofeng: "Did you just say that there are ten more supply warehouses in Prince Qin's Mansion?"
"yes!"
Wang Biaofeng responded and continued: "There are four in the city of Xi'an, each with a grain storage of 20,000 shi, and one in each of the six counties around Xi'an, including Chang'an, Xianning, Xianyang, Jingyang, Gaoling, and Huxian, each with a grain storage of 10,000 shi. "
Yuan Keli was a little surprised. These six county towns were all very close to Xi'an City, and the farthest one was only sixty or seventy miles away.
If something unexpected happens, it will arrive within one day of transportation.
"With ten granaries, how much food is left?"
"Except for the four granaries in Xi'an City, the other six have been sold out."
After hearing this, Yuan Keli looked at a commanding officer he had brought with him: "Immediately send people to guard the four granaries. Without my permission, no one is allowed to come within ten feet of the granaries!"
After the fellow commander left, the hall became quiet except for the occasional crackling sound of burning charcoal.
Yuan Keli, who was sitting in the first seat, closed his eyes and rested his mind, while the six commanders of the Xi'an Mansion were restless, but did not dare to speak out.
Half an hour later, a guard in golden clothes walked in: "Mr. Ge, according to the jade certificate from Prince Qin's Palace, there are 104 members of the Qin family in Prince Qin's Palace, and they are all in the palace.
In addition, all the officials of the palace are also here. The remaining servants and servants total 689 people. 66 of them have been sent out to run various businesses. Do you want to send someone to capture them? "
"Don't worry about it yet!"
Yuan Keli waved his hand, some small fish, it doesn't matter, as long as the clan members are there.
An hour later, another Jin Yiwei entered the lobby and handed a piece of paper to Yuan Keli: "Mr. Ge, the statistics from Chang'an County show that there are 136 hectares of lower fields, 421 hectares of middle fields, and 328 hectares of upper fields. There is a difference of 250 hectares from the summary account book.
The land deeds for these two hundred hectares are all from after this year. "
After hearing this, Yuan Keli's face turned cold.
In the following time, someone would send in the calculation results almost every once in a while.
This accounting did not end until the sun was almost setting in the afternoon.
Looking at the data compiled on the table, Yuan Keli's eyes were very complicated.
Various expressions such as regret, sadness, anger, and joy are mixed together.
It is a pity that since this year, the land of the Prince of Qin's Mansion has increased by nearly 3,000 hectares. It was all sold to the Prince of Qin's Mansion at a low price after the disaster and the people could no longer survive.
Sadly, the people have no power. In order to survive, they can only sell the land they have worked hard for decades for at a low price. From then on, they can only rent land and endure exploitation, or become refugees.
What makes him angry is that the Prince of Qin's family has a great business, yet he still competes with the people for a little bit of money, which is nearly 30% lower than the normal price.
The Prince of Qin's Mansion has 29,000 hectares of fertile land, 29 mountains, forests and mines, tax collection rights in six counties including Chang'an County, Xianning and Xianyang, 67 manors, various restaurants, markets, inns, etc. Waiting for more than three hundred places.
The moment he saw the data, Yuan Keli wanted to ask the emperor to confiscate the homes of all the other princes.
PS: Twenty-nine thousand hectares seems like a lot, but in actual calculation it is less than two thousand square kilometers, which is about the same size as Shenzhen.
"Mr. Ge, some of the 29,000 hectares of farmland in the Prince of Qin's Mansion were owned by some gentry in Shaanxi Province."
Yuan Keli suddenly stood up: "How many are there?"
"I don't know for the moment, but most of the land deeds with white deeds belong to the gentry and wealthy businessmen."
"Check it immediately!"
